Media manoeuvring
As soon as the law-enforcement agencies formally launched the Karachi operation this year, the electronic media somehow became a sort of hot battleground between MQM and anti-MQM quarters in the…
Media’s Waterloo?
Is the Pakistani media, often described as vibrant, bold and fiercely independent, suddenly facing its Waterloo? The heart wishes to say an emphatic no but the head forces a reality…
As bank swaps trades come under rules, electronic trading may rise
Three months after new trading requirements for the $300 trillion US derivatives market were introduced, little of the market is operating as regulators intended, with mandates for most bank trades…
Media Matters
In their celebrated work Satellites over South Asia, David Page and William Crawley had not identified even the broadest contours of the enormity of challenges the private broadcast media will…
Media and its maladies
A tangled web it is. We have this uneasy feeling of being in a deep crisis that we cannot easily decipher. One would expect the media to untangle it for…
A media myth
Fortunately, both Hamid Mir, the intended victim of the April 19 shooting in Karachi, and freedom of expression will survive. Like Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme, there is no scope for…
Media in the clouds
The Pakistani Taliban in disarray, their Afghan counterparts lying low as that country proceeds to elect a new leader, and Al-Qaeda generally looking somewhat lost between ‘Khorasan’ and its ancestral…
The media’s role
Last week the Indus Resource Centre (IRC) and the Sindh Education Foundation held a joint consultative roundtable — the second such event in a series — to study the impact…
Musharraf and the media
What exactly is our problem when it comes to discussing the status of the media? Do we suffer from short memories? Or are we purposely selective with the truth? The…
The police and social media
THE chief minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah, recently urged policemen to utilise social networking sites to reach out to the public during emergencies. We have commonly seen that in developing societies…
